Yo, I just wanted to do another journal update to say

holy shit, I am actually MEGA close to reaching affiliate status??? I've had the biggest spike of people stopping by and following me since my second ever stream and that's super huge? I set it for myself as a goal to reach this level by the end of September but at the rate it's going I'm probably gonna be getting there by the end of my next stream on Thursday?

I just wanna say thank you all so much for all the support I've gotten so far, streaming has been such a fun activity, and now that I have the time to do it between jobs, working towards a real and tangible goal has been doing wonders for building up confidence and learning to be entertaining and it's something I wanna keep doing. I've also had trouble with actually focusing on video games enough and felt my mood to play them had vanished. Planning 4 hour streaming sessions 4 days a week has helped me actually enjoy playing games more often, because I get to share the fun with you guys, and that just seems to help me mentally overcome the barrier of ennui when I wanna do something to entertain myself.

Basically, this has been a wonderful decision! And I'm hoping I can reach affiliate status soon. I've gotta plan out emotes and all but I've got one or two ideas in the making as well, so there'll be fun rewards once I do reach that status and can start making my own subscriber emotes.

And if you're not following me on Twitch yet and wanna do so, here's a link:

https://www.twitch.tv/joeybuckaroo

I stream from 7 PM to 11 PM Central European Time Thu/Fri/Sat/Sun